Adele also breaking records in France

The disc 25 Adele offers the best start to the year in France Photo credit:. ROBYN BECK / AFP

In France, the artist British do as well as Daft Punk and Random Access Memories released in 2013. Her new album crushes the competition only a week after its release, with 169,700 copies sold.

Without surprise 25 the most anticipated album of the year, sets new records every day worldwide. This time it was in France that the British diva Adele is required and lands upon its release in the ranking of best-selling discs.

According to Pure Charts , the album has sold 169,700 copies in the space of just one week including 143,400 physical sales and digital 26.300. This performance comes directly recall the incredible success it two years ago, the great return of Daft Punk with their album Random Access Memories , sold 195,000 the first week. Similarly, Stromae had passed 182,000 copies of his Square Root in the same period.

The disc which contains particular piece Hello whose clip was directed by Xavier Dolan, therefore offers the artist the best start to the year in France, and eclipse, also the album Interstellar of Mylène Farmer and its 110,000 sales.

However, it is still far from the triumph of her previous album, 21 , elapsed to 1.78 million copies and signing one of the bestsellers century France.